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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences

by Michel Foucault
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences

Intellectual voyage through history's knowledge systems.

If you're fascinated by how human understanding has shifted from ancient analogies to modern analysis, "The Order of Things" offers a deep dive into that evolution. Imagine peeling back the layered history of thought, where Foucault masterfully reveals the origins and transformations of the sciences. It's a book that challenges what we deem as 'truth,' reshaping your perception of knowledge and its construction. It's dense, thought-provoking, and could be just the kind of intellectual stimulation you're craving.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences

by Michel Foucault
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ISBN: 9780679753353
Authors: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1994-03-29
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, History, Science, Philosophy
Related Topics: History, Anthropology, Psychology, Theory, History
Goodreads rating: 4.12
(rated by 9522 readers)

Description

With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into the seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths. In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that “man”—man as a subject of scientific knowledge—is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.
 

Intellectual voyage through history's knowledge systems.

If you're fascinated by how human understanding has shifted from ancient analogies to modern analysis, "The Order of Things" offers a deep dive into that evolution. Imagine peeling back the layered history of thought, where Foucault masterfully reveals the origins and transformations of the sciences. It's a book that challenges what we deem as 'truth,' reshaping your perception of knowledge and its construction. It's dense, thought-provoking, and could be just the kind of intellectual stimulation you're craving.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.